Contact the utility company and ask them for historical averages.

Easy to follow comps, cap rates, and historical data are key along with some touch of the intangibles like where the path of progress is in that area.Are you looking to grow as a wholesaler in Texas?

I worked on Oil Tankers and if you look at the Historical Hurricane map you will see that the only time Tampa was hit by a Hurricane, was in 1921.

I'm a new potential investor and still trying to figure out this industry.I live in Kansas City, Overland park, Kansas.I personally love old brick buildings, historic buildings but, I saw a lot of abandoned not managed old buildings.

Specifically in the city where there's some historic value to lots of the homes.

I wrote a blog recently about how Appreciation has historically compared by region and then zoomed into my market in Santa Cruz County.

Not recommended to use now common 5% vacancy factor (historically 10% minimum) on anything but Class A.

Granted the loans were for $100k but Historically 6% is cheap money.  

Purchase price: $3,275,000 Cash invested: $1,185,000 Six story, 47 unit mixed-use historic hotel-conversion property located in heart of downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

It is not as much as investing for appreciation as much as what the location historically offers.